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Pictures of Bird Life 



Cock Chaffinch {Friiigilla cwlebs). 



wing, sounds exactly 

 like '*Chis - wick, 

 chis-wick." On the 

 sewage-farm it is ex- 

 ceedingly numerous 

 all the year round. 



The beautiful Yel- 

 low \\^igtail is found 

 in some numbers in 

 tlie same place. 



\ nest photo- 

 graphed two or three 

 years aoo was in a 

 ditcli-side, and con- 

 tained six eggs, very like Sedge-warbler's in appearance. 

 The birds were very sliy, and it took me two days to 

 photograph tlic hen on lier nest, and I liad almost given 

 up the idea of getting them off the nest, when at last 1 

 noticed that before flying across the ditch they always 

 settled on a tall dock just opposite. This gave me a chance 

 of obtaining some good positions, in spite of a very strong 

 wind which was lilowing at the time. 



In the same locality are also innnense numbers of Meadow- 

 pipits, which feed all the year round about the Httle pools 

 on the numerous insects so abundant in such places. Here 

 you can see them to advantage when they are busily 

 engaged feeding or chasing one another, which they are 

 so fond of doiup-. 



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